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The Bush family as well as the House of Windsor were neck deep in WWII Profiteering with the Nazi Party; Barry A.K.A. Barack is out Bushing the Bush Family:George Soros has stated working with the Nazi's was the best time of his life; Hillary Clinton sparked uproar in Washington recently when she said very much the same as the heir to the throne. The 4th Reich has been formed

EXCLUSIVE: 'Putin is behaving just like Hitler', says Charles. Prince's controversial verdict on Russian leader's invasion of Ukraine

• Prince Charles likened Putin's behaviour in Ukraine to that of Hitler
• Royal made comment to a Jewish woman who fled Holocaust
• He said: 'And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler’
• Prince Charles and Camilla are on a short Royal tour of Canada
• Deputy PM Nick Clegg says prince is 'free to express himself'
  

By Rebecca English
Published: 17:01 EST, 20 May 2014 | Updated: 05:49 EST, 21 May 2014

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Prince Charles has sensationally likened Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.
In a withering verdict on the actions of the Russian president in Ukraine, he told a woman who lost relatives in the Nazi Holocaust: ‘And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler.’

The prince’s extraordinary intervention is certain to cause international controversy.

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Strained diplomacy: Prince Charles, pictured welcoming Vladimir Putin on a state visit to Britain in 2003, likened the Russian leader to Hitler while speaking to a Jewish woman in Nova Scotia, Canada
It is likely to be seen as a criticism of the West for failing to confront Mr Putin over his seizure of Crimea. The annexation was the first by a major power in Europe since 1945.
Observers have compared the crisis in Ukraine with Hitler’s takeovers of Czechoslovakia and Poland.

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They have pointed to the similar use of disguised special forces to stir up tensions in disputed areas.


Controversial: Prince Charles made his off-the-cuff comment about the situation in Ukraine while on a Royal tour of Canada, surrounded by media





Royal comment: Prince Charles likened Putin's actions in Ukraine to that of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s

Prince Charles and Camilla charm the crowds on Canadian tour



Charles, who is scheduled to meet Mr Putin at the D-Day commemorations in France on June 6, made his well-intentioned but unguarded comment during a visit to the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The prince is on a whistlestop tour of Canada with the Duchess of Cornwall – they have 41 engagements in just three and a half days.
On Monday, the pair paid a heartfelt tribute to Second World War veterans and their families over tea at the museum in Halifax’s docks.





Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall arrive in the rain at a Canadian Forces Base airport in Winnipeg


Prince Charles speaks with Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba Philip S. Lee, right, as Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall struggles with her umbrella

He was introduced to Marienne Ferguson, a museum volunteer who fled to Canada with her Jewish family when she was just 13.

The 78-year-old was born in what is now the Polish city of Gdansk, a key flashpoint in the Second World War.

A free city under the terms of the Versailles Treaty after the end of the Great War, it was seized by the Nazis on the first day of fighting in 1939.


Prince Charles signs a guestbook while flanked by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Manitoba Lieutenant Governor Philip Lee (right) and Lee's wife Anita (left) at the Government House in Winnipeg


Prince Charles and his wife Camilla pose for a photo on the steps of Province House in Charlottetown


Prince Charles chats to choir singers from local churches in Charlottetown

Mrs Ferguson and her parents, two sisters and grandmother had managed to obtain permits to sail to Canada. But other members of her family failed to flee before the German army arrived.
Along with an estimated six hundred Jews from the city, they were sent to Nazi camps where they met their deaths.

Mrs Ferguson was given the chance to tell her incredible story to Charles as she showed him the museum’s exhibits.

At the end of the visit, and surrounded by media, Charles made his off-the-cuff comment about the situation in Ukraine.


Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, enjoys a cup of tea as she visits Prince Edward Home, a long-term care facility in Charlottetown


Prince Charles, pictured today with his wife Camilla, made the comments during the royal couple's visit to the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax, Nova Scotia

It was heard by several witnesses. Mother-of-three Mrs Ferguson said: ‘I had finished showing him the exhibit and talked with him about my own family background and how I came to Canada.
‘The prince then said “And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler”.
‘I must say that I agree with him and am sure a lot of people do. I was very surprised that he made the comment as I know they [members of the Royal Family] aren’t meant to say these things but it was very heartfelt and honest.
‘I told the prince that while my family and I were lucky to get a permit to travel, many of my other relatives had permits but were unable to get out before war broke out on September 1. They were sent to the concentration camps and died.’


Prince Charles looks at a canoeist and a kayaker next to the West River in Bonshaw Provincial Park near Charlottetown


Royal visit: The Prince of Wales smiles as he meets young earth Rangers in Bonshaw Park on Prince Edward island on the third day of their Royal trip to Canada


Well liked: Prince Charles and Camilla received a warm welcome when they arrived in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on Tuesday


Interesting curves: The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall study a wood carving of a ship's figure head, during a visit to the Hector Quay Museum in Pictou county, Nova Scotia

GAS DEAL OF THE CENTURY

Russia and China were last night frantically haggling over the ‘deal of the century’ on gas and investment.

Putin hopes to secure £240billion in guaranteed energy exports to China, making Russia far less dependent on Europe.

The two sides were edging towards a ‘significant joint declaration’, including military plans, although Russian sources said they had so far failed to agree on gas prices.

As relations between Russia and the West deteriorated rapidly, China issued a friendly statement on Ukraine to Moscow and the nations conducted a joint naval exercise.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the prince should be 'free to express himself'.

'I obviously can’t comment on a conversation which was clearly a private a private conversation and I’m not going to start comparing one period of European history to another, but Prince Charles is able, I would have thought, to be free to express himself.
'I have never been of the view that if you are a member of the Royal family somehow you have to enter into some sort of Trappist vow of silence,' he told BBC Breakfast.

'I think he is entitled to his views, but don’t know whether those were his views because I just don’t think providing a running commentary on private conversations is useful to anybody.'

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton sparked uproar in Washington recently when she said very much the same as the heir to the throne. Lashing out at Moscow’s plan to issue passports to ethnic Russians in Crimea, she said: ‘Now, if this sounds familiar, it’s what Hitler did back in the 1930s.’

What is unusual, however, is for a senior royal to express an opinion publicly on such a clearly sensitive diplomatic issue.
Charles is often criticised for meddling in domestic affairs of state as well as the infamous ‘black spider’ memos – so called because of his scrawling handwriting – that he is said to frequently write to ministers on issues close to his heart. But international issues, particularly one as sensitive as this, are considered taboo.
A spokesman for Clarence House said last night they would not comment on a private conversation.


People photograph members of the Vostok Battalion, a pro-Russia militia, while they stand guard in an intersection. Prince Charles' comments are likely to be seen as a criticism of the West for failing to confront Mr Putin over his seizure of Crimea


Pro-Russian militia take position in the Bakinskih Comisarov Square in Ukraine. The prince¿s extraordinary intervention is certain to cause international controversy

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The Nazi Roots of the House of Windsor

by Scott Thompson

Printed in The American Almanac, August 25, 1997.

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One of the biggest public relations hoaxes ever perpetrated by the British Crown, is that King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne in 1938, due to his support for the Nazis, was a ``black sheep,'' an aberration in an otherwise unblemished Windsor line. Nothing could be further from the truth. The British monarchy, and the City of London's leading Crown bankers, enthusiastically backed Hitler and the Nazis, bankrolled the Führer's election, and did everything possible to build the Nazi war machine, for Britain's planned geopolitical war between Germany and Russia. Support for Nazi-style genocide has always been at the heart of House of Windsor policy, and long after the abdication of Edward VIII, the Merry Windsors maintained their direct Nazi links.
So, when Prince Philip, co-founder with Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), tells an interviewer that he hopes to be ``reincarnated as a deadly virus'' to help solve the ``population problem,'' he is just ``doin' what comes naturally'' for any scion of the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy (see page 8 for more quotes from Prince Philip).
To get beyond the soap opera stuff and truly understand the Windsors today, it is useful to start with Prince Philip. Not only was he trained in the Hitler Youth curriculum, but his German brothers-in-law, with whom he lived, all became high-ranking figures in the Nazi Party.
Before his family was forced into exile, Prince Philip had been in line of succession to the Greek throne, established after a British-run coup against the son of King Ludwig of Bavaria, who became King Otto I of the Hellenes. Having dispatched King Otto in 1862, London ran a talent search for a successor, which resulted in the selection of Prince William, the son of the designated heir and nephew to the Danish king, Crown Prince Christian. In 1862, Prince William of the Danes was installed as King George I of Greece, and married a granddaughter of Czar Nicholas I in 1866. Prince Philip is a grandson of Queen Victoria, and he is related to most of the current and former crowned heads of Europe, including seven czars.
The marriages of Prince Philip's sisters definitely strengthened the German aristocratic ties. During 1931-1932, Philip's four older sisters married as follows: Margarita to a Czech-Austrian prince named Gottfried von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, a great-grandson of England's Queen Victoria; Theodora to Berthold, the margrave of Baden; Cecilia to Georg Donatus, grand duke of Hesse-by-Rhine, also a great-grandson of Queen Victoria; and, Sophie to Prince Christoph of Hesse.
Three of Philip's brothers-in-law were part of a group of German aristocrats who were Anglophile and pro-Nazi at the same time, and who remain a subversive force in Germany to this day.

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Enter Prince Bernhard

His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard, royal consort to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and father of the current Queen Beatrix, co-founded and became the first head of the World Wildlife Fund (now the World Wide Fund for Nature) in October 1961. When the Lockheed scandal forced Prince Bernhard to resign from his most important public functions in 1971, he was replaced by Prince Philip. Prince Bernhard, like Prince Philip, whom he recruited to the eco-fascist cause, had strong roots in the Nazi movement. In fact, the whole House of Orange did: Queen Wilhelmina, mother of the future Queen Juliana, married a right-wing playboy who begged for money for Hitler; Juliana married an SS man (Prince Bernhard); and, Queen Juliana's daughter Beatrix married a former member of Hitler Youth.
Prince Bernhard first became interested in the Nazis in 1934, during his last year of study at the University of Berlin. He was recruited by a member of the Nazi intelligence services, but first worked openly in the motorized SS. Bernhard went to Paris to work for the firm IG Farben, which pioneered Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht's slave labor camp system by building concentration camps to convert coal into synthetic gasoline and rubber. Bernhard's role was to conduct espionage on behalf of the SS. According to the April 5, 1976 issue of Newsweek, this role, as part of a special SS intelligence unit in IG Farbenindustrie, had been revealed in testimony at the Nuremberg trials.
When Bernhard left the SS to marry the future Queen Juliana, he signed his letter of resignation to Adolf Hitler, ``Heil Hitler!'' William Hoffman writes in his book Queen Juliana:

``Tensions [over the marriage] were not cooled when ... Adolf Hitler forwarded his own congratulatory message. The newspaper Het Volk editorialized that `it would be better if the future Queen had found a consort in some democratic country rather than in the Third Reich.'|''

This is the man who recruited Prince Philip to eco-facism, but Prince Philip's Nazi roots had been laid much earlier.

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Hitler Youth and Universal Fascism

Through the influence of his sister Theodora, young Philip was sent to the German school near Lake Constantine that had been founded by Berthold's father, Max von Baden, working through his longtime personal secretary, Kurt Hahn. During World War I, Prince Max von Baden had been chancellor, while the Oxford-trained Hahn first served as head of the Berlin Foreign Ministry's intelligence desk, then as special adviser to Prince Max in the Versailles Treaty negotiations. Von Baden and Hahn set up a school in a wing of Schloss Salem, employing a combination of monasticism and the Nazis' ``strength-through-joy'' system. At first a supporter of the Nazis, Hahn, who was part Jewish, soon got into trouble with the SS, and came to support the more centrist elements of the Nazi Party. What Hahn really had become is what Henry Kissinger's friend, Michael Ledeen has termed a ``universal fascist,'' in the sense of Vladimir Jabotinsky, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, the Strasser brothers, and other fascists whom the hard-core Nazis would have no dealings with. Although Hahn's powerful connections permitted him to escape the concentration camps, he was forced to leave the school he founded in Germany before Philip's arrival there, and established a new school in Scotland, called Gordonstoun. It would play a major role in rearing all the male children of Queen Elizabeth II and Philip. When Philip arrived at Hahn's school in Schloss Salem, it was in control of the Hitler Youth and the Nazi Party, and the curriculum had become Nazi ``race science.'' Hahn became an adviser to the Foreign Office in London, urging policies of appeasement based upon appeals to the ``centrist'' Nazis.

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Philip's Relatives Work for the SS

The husband of Philip's sister Sophie, Prince Christoph, was embraced by the Nazis, who saw him as a channel to the appeasement faction in Britain epitomized by King Edward VIII. Joining the Nazi Party in 1933, by 1935 Prince Christoph was chief of the Forschungsamt (directorate of scientific research), a special intelligence operation run by Hermann Göring, and he was also Standartenführer (colonel) of the SS on Heinrich Himmler's personal staff. The Forschungsamt used electronic intelligence-gathering methods to police the Nazi Party, while working with the Gestapo against the Catholic Church, the Jews, and labor organizations. When rumors of homosexuality spread against Capt. Ernst Roehm of the Stormtroopers, Himmler turned to the Forschungsamt's eavesdroppers, and ordered the ``Night of the Long Knives'' as a result. The eldest of Prince Christoph and Sophie's children was named Karl Adolf, after Hitler. Later, Prince Philip would promote his education. Prince Christoph's brother, Philip of Hesse, married a daughter of the King of Italy, and became the official liaison between the Nazi and Fascist regimes.
Four years after Prince Philip left Schloss Salem to attend Gordonstoun Academy in Scotland, on Nov. 16, 1937, Philip learned that his sister Cecilia and her husband Georg Donatus, hereditary grand duke of Hesse-by-Rhine, had crashed in one of Göring's Junker aircraft on a trip to London for Georg's brother's wedding. According to the British magazine Private Eye, the funeral became a gathering point for leading Nazis and their appeasers. Prince Philip himself developed secretive ties with King Edward VIII, continuing after Edward was deposed in 1938.
In fact, one of the central figures in the 1930s Nazi-British back-channel was Philip's uncle and sponsor, Lord Louis Mountbatten (originally, Battenberg, a branch of the House of Hesse). Until he was forced to abdicate, King Edward VIII enjoyed the full backing of ``Dickie'' Mountbatten. Through much of World War II, secret channels of communication were maintained between the British royal family and their pro-Hitler cousins in Germany, by Lord Mountbatten, through his sister Louise, who was crown princess of pro-Nazi Sweden. Louise was Prince Philip's aunt.
Although Buckingham Palace's rumor mill has tried to depict this wartime collaboration with the enemy as mere family correspondence, the channel apparently included messages from Prince Philip's secret ally, the Duke of Windsor (the former Edward VIII). On Nov. 20, 1995, the Washington Times reported, based on recently discovered Portuguese Secret Service files first published in the London Observer, that the Duke of Windsor had been in close collaboration with the Nazis in Spain and Portugal to foment a revolution in wartime Britain, that would topple the Churchill government, depose his brother King George VI, and allow him to regain the throne, with Queen Wallis [Simpson, the American divorcée, for whom he abdicated the throne] at his side. Portuguese surveillance revealed that Walter Schellenberg, head of Gestapo counterintelligence, was one point of contact in this plot. After Schellenberg met with the Spanish ambassador to Portugal, Nicolás Franco, brother of fascist Gen. Francisco Franco, Ambassador Franco told a Portuguese diplomat: ``The Duke of Windsor, free from the responsibilities of the war, in disagreement with English politicians, could be the man to put at the head of the Empire.''
Whatever correspondence was hidden in Sophie and Prince Christoph's Kronberg Castle, King George VI, in June 1945, felt compelled to dispatch the former MI-5 officer turned ``Surveyor of the King's Pictures,'' Anthony Blunt, to gather up the correspondence. Queen Elizabeth II reportedly insisted that there be no interrogation of Blunt about his secret trip to the castle. Otherwise, it is notable that starting with an exchange between King George VI and President Eisenhower, the House of Windsor has been desperate to keep classified those documents from Kronberg Castle that fell into American Army hands, long beyond the normal length of time. Clearly, Prince Philip's patron Lord Dickie Mountbatten, Mountbatten's sister Crown Princess Louise, and Philip's brother-in-law Prince Christoph of Hesse were not just exchanging Christmas greetings.

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David Icke

Putin is behaving just like Hitler, says Charles: Prince’s controversial verdict on Russian leader’s invasion of Ukraine

Well, Charles should know – the German wing of his family supported the Nazis (as did many in the British wing) and what is more Nazi than having a head of state imposed on the population without them having any say in the matter whatsover? Bullshitter, er, isn't one?

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Putin is behaving just like Hitler, says Charles

In a withering verdict on the actions of the Russian president in Ukraine, he told a woman who lost relatives in the Nazi Holocaust: ‘And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler.’

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The Nazi Roots of the House of Windsor



‘One of the biggest public relations hoaxes ever perpetrated by the British Crown, is that King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne in 1938, due to his support for the Nazis, was a “black sheep,” an aberration in an otherwise unblemished Windsor line. Nothing could be further from the truth. The British monarchy, and the City of London’s leading Crown bankers, enthusiastically backed Hitler and the Nazis, bankrolled the Führer’s election, and did everything possible to build the Nazi war machine, for Britain’s planned geopolitical war between Germany and Russia.
Support for Nazi-style genocide has always been at the heart of House of Windsor policy, and long after the abdication of Edward VIII, the Merry Windsors maintained their direct Nazi links.’

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Prince Charles Compares Putin to Hitler

Remark ironic considering Saxe-Coburg-Gotha royals loved Hitler and the Nazis




by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | May 22, 2014

Prince Charles’ “well-intentioned” remark comparing Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hitler is ironic considering the well-established fact the British royal family was cozy with the real Hitler back in the day.

Prince Harry’s Nazi uniform, explained away as an unfortunate wardrobe malfunction in 2005, revisited a public relations disaster the royal family spent decades patching up.
Following the First World War, the royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor to distract attention from its German heritage.
Family members of Prince Philip, who is from the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, were unabashed supporters of Hitler and the Nazis.
Brother-in-law, Prince Christoph of Hesse, was a member of the SS. He piloted fighters that attacked allied troops in Italy.
Several weeks before Germany invaded Poland King George VI and his wife, the late Queen Mother, sent Hitler a birthday greeting.
“I never thought Hitler was such a bad chap,” said George’s brother, the former King Edward VIII, who became the Duke of Windsor after abdicating in 1936. Edward made this remark in 1970 when it was widely known that Hitler and the Nazis had directly and indirectly killed more than 40 million civilians and soldiers.
The Nazis planned to install the Duke as leader after a successful conquest of Britain. The former head of British naval intelligence said Hitler “would soon be in this country, but that there was no reason to worry about it because he would bring the Duke of Windsor over as king.”

In 1937 the Duke and Duchess of Windsor visited Germany and met Adolf Hitler.

Other royals were also connected to the Nazis. Baron Gunther von Reibnitz, the father of Princess Michael of Kent, was a party member and an honorary member of the SS. The brother of Princess Alice was a Nazi who claimed Hitler had done a “wonderful job.” Charles Edward was placed under house arrest after the war for his Nazi sympathies. He was sentenced by a denazification court, heavily fined and almost bankrupted.
Much of the British gentry also held a fondness for Hitler and the Nazis. Lord Halifax was infatuated with Hitler and Sir Oswald Mosely served as the leader of the British Black Shirts.
Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944, was a close friend of the German Central Bank President Hjalmar Schacht. Schacht was an ardent supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and served in the Nazi government as President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. Norman played a key role in transferring Czechoslovakian gold to the Nazis in March 1939.


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'If anyone knows real Nazis it's the Royal Family': Russian state TV launches extraordinary attack on Prince Charles after Putin-Hitler remark

• Russia Today wades into row with segment highlighting Royal's Nazi links
• RT notes Edward VIII's 1937 Hitler visit and Harry's 2005 Nazi uniform gaffe
• Comes three days after Prince Charles likened President Putin to Adolf Hitler
  
• Russian embassy in London slams FCO official for avoiding explanation
• Kremlin condemned words as 'unacceptable, outrageous and dishonourable'
• Row comes as Ukraine edges closer to full war with 14 Ukrainian soldiers killed in ambush
• Russia accuses West of 'dangerous megalomania' and 'encouraging neo-Nazis'
  

By Matthew Blake and Will Stewart and James Chapman and Rebecca English
Published: 16:38 EST, 22 May 2014 | Updated: 07:25 EST, 23 May 2014
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Vladimir Putin's media mouthpiece today waded into the row over Prince Charles' Hitler comments with a segment highlighting the Royal Family's links to the Nazis.
Three days after the heir to the British throne likened Vladimir Putin to the Nazi tyrant, state-funded Russia Today urged him to look at his own family before questioning the Russian president's incursion on Ukraine.
In an extraordinary attack on Britain's House of Windsor, the tit-for-tat feature, on RT's In the Now programme, saw senior political correspondent Anissa Naouai tell viewers: 'If anyone knows real Nazis, it's the Royal Family.'
She then introduces a video graphic of a faded mock-up of a Royal family tree, featuring Queen Elizabeth II, Edward VIII, Charles and Prince Harry.

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'Boomerang effect': Speaking during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum today, Vladimir Putin told business leaders that economic sanctions imposed by the West will have a 'boomerang effect' and hit the very countries that imposed them in the first place


Royal Nazis: The feature, on RT's In the Now programme, saw senior political correspondent Anissa Naouai telling viewers: 'If anyone knows real Nazis, it's the Royal Family'


Nazi links: She then introduces a video graphic of a faded mock up of a family tree introducing the Royals' Nazi connections

She first points to a photograph of the Duke of Windsor - Charles's great uncle - visiting Hitler at his Obersalzberg retreat in 1937, shortly after abdicating as Edward VIII.
She adds that his wife, Wallace Simpson, 'hung out with Hitler'.


Private comment: Prince Charles likened Putin to Adolf Hitler in a leaked conversation during his tour of Canada

She goes on to note that the Duke of Edinburgh's sister, Sophie, was married to an SS officer before segueing to a photo of Prince Harry wearing a Nazi Uniform to a fancy-dress party in 2005.
'And then Prince Charles's very own son likes to dress up like a Nazi even if it's just for Halloween,' she jokes, adding: 'Perhaps royals are better seen and not heard.'
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin told business leaders that economic sanctions imposed by the West will have a 'boomerang effect' and hit the very countries that imposed the measures in the first place.
He argued that the current stand-off with Ukraine is 'not due to Russia but to the situation in the Ukraine, which abuses its position.'
He went on: 'We have gathered here for economic discussions, but we cannot erase political discussions.
'Economic sanctions as a tool of political pressure are eventually going to attack the economy of the countries who have initiated the sanctions.'

It comes as Russia again hit out at Britain over Prince Charles' likening of Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.
Moscow expressed anger that London failed to give what it deemed a proper account of the significance of the heir to the throne's controversial comments.
The row refused to die as the Russian embassy in London criticised senior Foreign Office official Sian MacLeod who 'avoided giving explanations regarding this matter, saying that it is a case of nothing but media reports about a private conversation. All of this cannot but cause regret.'



Hanging out with Hitler: She first introduces a photograph of the Duke of Windsor - Charles's great uncle - visiting Hitler at his Obersalzberg retreat shortly after abdicating as Edward VIII, adding that his wife, Wallace Simpson, 'hung out with Hitler'


Harry the Nazi: She goes on to note that the Duke of Edinburgh's sister, Sophie, was married to an SS officer before segueing to a photo of Prince Harry wearing a Nazi Uniform to a fancy-dress party in 2005

Russia a day earlier had labelled the prince's comments as 'unacceptable, outrageous and low'.

The British diplomat told deputy Russian ambassador Alexander Kramarenko that she was not prepared to discuss Prince Charles's private conversations, before going on to criticise Moscow's actions in Ukraine.

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'It was not a meeting of minds,' said a British source. 'We were on quite different pages.'
Britain used the meeting to urge the Russians to avoid destabilising Ukraine as it goes to the polls in a presidential election on Sunday.


But today Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu warned bluntly about Ukraine: 'After the forceful overthrow of the current president and with the active participation of external forces, the country has practically slid into a civil war.'
He accused the West of provoking 'an artificially created tinderbox' in Europe.
'The results of such intervention is a long-term destabilisation,' he told a security conference in Moscow.

His comments came after reports that at least 14 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and dozens more were wounded when rebels stormed their checkpoint in east Ukraine.

The attack was the deadliest yet in the conflict and saw three armoured vehicles destroyed and a series of other lorries and vans burned out.

A group of rebels in the town of Horlivka claimed responsibility for the attack near the village of Blahodatne, near the town of Volnovakha, Donetsk.
Meanwhile, as the diplomatic crisis escalated:
The Daily Mail revealed earlier this week the prince's extraordinary remarks as he met Second World War veterans and their families on his Canada visit.


Prince Charles waves today just before leaving Winnipeg, Canada, at the end of his three-day tour with the Duchess of Cornwall. He told a Holocaust survivor who he met on the official visit that Vladimir Putin's actions in the Ukraine bore comparison to Hitler's


Russian President Vladimir Putin boarding a helicopter during a one-day visit to his country's Amur region today. His foreign ministry spokesman said Prince Charles' remarks were 'outrageous'

'And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler,' he told Marianne Ferguson, a museum volunteer who fled to Canada with her Jewish family when she was 13 and lost relatives in the Holocaust.

His remarks were seen as a reference to Putin's seizure of Crimea – the first annexation by a major power in Europe since the end of the Second World War in 1945.
Russia is now accused of sending undercover military forces into the Black Sea and other areas of eastern Ukraine with large ethnic Russian populations, using the pretext of protecting the Russian minority to take over more Ukrainian territory.
Yesterday Sian MacLeod, a Foreign Office director covering Eastern Europe, met Russian deputy ambassador Alexander Kramarenko at his request to discuss Charles's attack.
The Whitehall source said: 'The Russians were not happy and said they wanted to know what was going on. It is fair to say they were surprised by our blanket refusal to engage with the subject of the private conversations of the heir to the throne.
'Instead we said we would rather talk about a country one part of which they have annexed and another part of which they are trying to destabilise.'
Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich questioned whether Charles was fit to be king after his broadside comparing Putin and Hitler.
'If these words were really said, then undoubtedly they are not worthy of a future British monarch,' he said. 'We have requested an official explanation from British authorities over the statements.
'We view the use of the Western Press by members of the British Royal Family to spread the propaganda campaign against Russia on a pressing issue – that is, the situation in Ukraine – as unacceptable, outrageous and low.'
Another senior diplomatic official in Moscow, Maria Zakharova, said sarcastically: 'Prince Charles and Prince Harry have a special kind of relations with Nazism, I must say.'
Prince Charles compares President Putin to Adolf Hitler

That was apparently a reference to the sympathies of some members of the Windsor family with Hitler in the 1930s and Harry's appearance at a fancy dress party in a German uniform.
Meanwhile, the Russian embassy in London denounced the 'outrageous remarks made by Prince Charles in Canada'.
Russian officials pointed out that the Soviets lost 26million defeating the Nazis, with Churchill acknowledging it was the Russians 'who tore the guts out of the German army'.
A commentary in newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets said Charles was considered by the British to be 'a clearly defined eccentric' who talked to trees and once dismissed senior Chinese leaders as 'awful old waxworks'.
CHARLES, RUSSIA AND 100 YEARS OF SHARED HISTORY


Princess Alix of Hesse, who married Tsar Nichoas II in 1894, was one of two of Queen Victoria's granddaughters who married into the Russian imperial family

Prince Charles's comments on one level are a simple commentary on contemporary politics from a man who is regularly briefed on foreign affairs by ministers.
But his family also have a deep-rooted connection to Russia, and in particular to the royal family overthrown by the Soviets.
The House of Romanov - which had reigned over Russia since 1613 - met its end in the early hours of July 17, 1918, during the Russian Revolution, when Tsar Nicholas II was marched into a cellar of a house and mown down by a Bolshevik firing squad.

Among the others executed that day were his son, Alexei Nikolaevich, his four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia - and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.

The Romanovs, who are buried in the former royal capital of St Petersburg, still have living relations - among them Charles's father, Prince Phillip, whose maternal grandmother was Princess Victoria of Hesse, the older sister of the doomed Tsarina.

Alexandra, who married the tsar in 1894, was one of two of Queen Victoria's granddaughters who married into the Russian imperial family.

In her early years, Princess Alix of Hesse, as she was then known, had spent much of her life with Victoria at Balmoral and Clarence House - the latter being the official residence today of Prince Charles.

Her elder sister, Elizabeth, married the tsar's brother the Grand Duke Sergei, in 1884 - but as with her sister, it would end in tragedy.

In 1905, her husband was assassinated by a socialist revolutionary.

The Bolsheviks established the Communist Party in 1912 - and after they swept to power, they founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union in 1922.
And while Vladimir Putin does not consider himself a communist, he has said that he regrets the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, the eldest child of Victoria and Albert, Crown Princess Vicky, married German emperor Frederick III in 1858.

Among their sons was Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose militarist policies contributed to the outbreak of World War I.


The Romanov dynasty ended in 1918 when the tsar and his family were executed by Bolsheviks

Privately, Charles has expressed his frustration that his trip has been dominated by a remark that was not, to his mind, a political statement but an expression of sympathy.
'The prince isn't angry per se, just very, very frustrated that something which was in no way a political pronouncement on his behalf has overshadowed everything the tour was trying to achieve,' said a royal source.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: 'People and governments across the world strongly condemn Russia's actions in Ukraine including the illegal annexation of Crimea, and the provoking of instability on the territory of a sovereign neighbour.'

PUTIN: THE BROTHER I LOST IN SIEGE OF LENINGRAD



Vladimir Putin has described his family’s loss when his elder brother Viktor died during the siege of Leningrad.
The boy, who was around a year old at the time, died of diphtheria in a children’s home. He was taken from his family during the 872-day siege, one of the bloodiest and most destructive of the Second World War.
Putin is a famously private man, but spoke about his brother two years ago on a visit to a cemetery in the city, now St Petersburg.
He said: ‘My brother, whom I have never seen and did not know, was buried here. I don’t even know where exactly. My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941 and my mother had a child taken from her – with the goal of saving him. They said he had died, but they never said where he was buried.’
His brother’s death, which took place before he was born, gives Putin a personal link to one of the great events of Russian history. Some 650,000 people died of starvation in the city between 1941 and 1944. In January, Putin honoured the victims of the Siege at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of its lifting in St Petersburg.
He told survivors: ‘Without those who worked on the erection of the defensive lines, without those who worked in the factories, without volunteers and units that were formed by the citizens of Leningrad, I know this from my own family history, without these people victory would have been impossible.’
Putin walked with several dozen siege survivors in a procession through the Piskaryovskoye cemetery, laying flowers and making the sign of the cross at the mass grave where, it was recently revealed, his brother is believed to have been interred.

Pro-Russian separatists ambush Ukrainian fighters near Donetsk, a day after 14 soldiers were killed at checkpoint in deadliest clash yet

Armed pro-Russian separatists ambushed a convoy of Ukrainian self-defence fighters today, two days before a presidential election.
A number of Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in the attack, which took place near the eastern city of Donetsk, military sources said.
'They (the separatists) are using automatic weapons, snipers and grenade launchers against the battalion,' Semen Semenchenko, the commander of a pro-Ukrainian militia group called the Donbass region battalion, said on his Facebook page.

Yuri Bereza, the commander of pro-Ukrainian self-defence forces in a nearby region who had headed to the scene, told Reuters by telephone: 'The fighting is still going on, we are evacuating the wounded.' He gave no figure for the wounded.


Two destroyed Ukrainian armoured personnel carriers and an army lorry show the aftermath of the bloodiest attack yet in the Ukrainian conflict. Fourteen soldiers died and dozens more were wounded in the ambush by pro-Kremlin forces who attacked a Ukrainian mobile military checkpoint today


A Ukrainian soldier stands near destroyed truck at the site of an attack by pro-Russian insurgents near the village of Blahodatne today. At least 11 Ukrainian troops were killed and about 30 others were wounded in the deadliest clash yet in the country. Three Ukrainian armored infantry vehicles were destroyed and several other vehicles were burned out in the gun battle which followed an ambush by pro-Russian insurgents


Armed: A separatist shows off the array of weapons his group it seized

Hours later, Russia accused the West of triggering the Ukrainian crisis by its 'megalomania,' as fighting continued in Ukraine's east between pro-Russia insurgents and government forces two days before a presidential election.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged the West to reach a settlement based on mutual interests.

'If we sincerely want to help the Ukrainian people overcome this crisis, it's necessary to abandon the notorious zero-sum games, stop encouraging xenophobic and neo-Nazi sentiments and get rid of dangerous megalomania,' Lavrov said in a speech at a security conference in Moscow organized by the Russian Defense Ministry.


'Dangerous megalomania': Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (pictured, left, with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009) urged the West to reach a settlement based on mutual interests, accusing the West of 'dangerous megalomania'

Speaking at the same conference, the head of the General Staff of the Russian military, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, blamed the West for encouraging massive protests that chased Ukraine's pro-Russian president from power in February.

It comes a day after at least 14 Ukrainian servicemen were killed in a firefight with rebel gunmen south of Donetsk, an industrial hub where the separatists have proclaimed a 'people's republic' and have vowed to disrupt Sunday's presidential election.

In the deadliest clash yet in the conflict in Ukraine, three armoured vehicles were destroyed and a series of other lorries and vans burned out.

The destruction of armoured vehicles shows that the rebels have access to heavy weaponry and are not lightly-armed freelance operators. It is likely to raise fears that they have been armed by Moscow.
A group of rebels in the town of Horlivka claimed responsibility for the attack near the village of Blahodatne, near the town of Volnovakha, Donetsk.


Destroyed homes: Mizan Mazasheva walks next to her destroyed house after a mortar bomb landed in an attack from Ukrainian government forces in Semyonovka village near the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine


Under fire: Slovyansk, a city which has been the epicenter of clashes for weeks, has seen continuous shelling by the Ukrainian government forces, who have retaliated to the rebel fire


Still burning: There were no casualties, as the family living there had left the previous day, according to local residents

They produced an array of weapons they said they had seized from the soldiers, in what is the deadliest raid in weeks of fighting in the region.

But a Ukrainian commander said shortly after the attack: 'The war has started.'

'We destroyed a checkpoint of the fascist Ukrainian army deployed on the land of the Donetsk Republic,' said the commander, who wore a balaclava and identified himself by his nom de guerre, 'Bes' - Russian for 'demon.'
Meanwhile, Russia's top general said today that Moscow would retaliate against increased NATO activity near its border as tensions with the western alliance over Ukraine escalate.
Since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region, NATO has moved to reassure its nervous eastern European allies. Ships and planes have been temporarily deployed to their countries and military exercises in the region stepped up.
'NATO's military groupings in the Baltic states, Poland and Romania are being built up, as well as the military presence of the bloc in the Baltic, Mediterranean and Black Sea,' General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of general staff of the Russian armed forces, told a defence conference in Moscow.
'The intensity, the operational and combat readiness of the alliance's troops is being increased near the Russian border. In these circumstances ... we have to take retaliatory measures.'

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‘Inbred’ Prince Charles Behaves Like Joffrey From Game Of Thrones, Say’s Putin

May 21, 2014


RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin came back at comments made by Prince Charles earlier likening him to Hitler, stating that the monarch was behaving like Joffrey from Game Of Thrones.
Mr. Putin launched the scathing attack on the prince after he was reported to have told a woman how his Crimean actions were no different to the Nazi leaders in world war two.
“Who is this inbred to liken me to such a man.” said the Russian leader earlier. “Isn’t his father a Nazi lover? This is like a pot calling a kettle black. He is nothing more than a want to be child king, like Joffrey from Game of Thrones. Him and his manlike wife should stick to what they are good at -spending their kingdoms money.”
In what has been called one of the worst verbal attacks on the west, Mr. Putin went on to challenge the English monarch to a fist fight to the death.
“I maybe only 4 years younger than him, but I will rip those stupid ears from his gaylord face.” added Mr. Putin.
Charles, who is scheduled to meet Mr Putin at the D-Day commemorations in France on June 6, is not expected to take up the challenge, as according to a spokesman, he has a “bad back from an old polo injury”.
“Typical English faggots excuse.” replied Putin to the statement. “You make allegation you can’t back up, but then run away like a mouse to his mammy.”
The Prince is often criticised for meddling in domestic affairs of state. Last year he was made apologise to Nigel Farage for calling him a “complete and utter ****”.


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'Unacceptable, outrageous and low': Furious Kremlin demands official explanation for Prince Charles comparing Putin to Hitler and says words are 'not worthy of a future British king'

• Prince Charles likened President Putin to Adolf Hitler during Canada tour
• Kremlin condemned words as 'deeply insulting', called for urgent talks
• British diplomats make no reference to prince's remarks during talks with Moscow's London deputy ambassador - and instead focus on Ukraine unrest
  
• Pro-Putin media is now linking the Royal Family to Nazis in retaliation
• Putin and Charles are both due to attend a war memorial in Colville in June
• Charles left flew out of Winnipeg today at the end of his three-day tour
• Pro-Russian militants storm checkpoint and kill 14 Ukrainian soldiers
  

By James Chapman and Rebecca English and Daniel Martin and Leon Watson
Published: 17:46 EST, 21 May 2014 | Updated: 16:45 EST, 22 May 2014
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Russia today vented its fury at Prince Charles over his comments likening Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.
Using Cold War-style rhetoric delivered as the royal was flying back to Britain, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Charles's remarks - revealed by the Daily Mail - were 'unacceptable, outrageous and low'.

'If these words were really said, then undoubtedly they are not worthy of a future British monarch,' foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in Moscow.
"We have requested an official explanation from British authorities over the statements.
'We view the use of the Western press by members of the British royal family to spread the propaganda campaign against Russia on a pressing issue - that is, the situation in Ukraine - as unacceptable, outrageous and low.'

It is the first official comment made by Russian authorities and comes as Russia's deputy ambassador to London held face-to-face talks at the Foreign Office today.
Prince Charles's office has made no claim that he did not make the comparison but has said it was a 'private' conversation.

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Fury: Russia's Vladimir Putin (pictured today in the Russian Far East after a trip to China) is fighting back against Prince Charles (today shortly before leaving Canada) who likened his actions to Hitler's



Prince Charles waves today just before leaving Winnipeg, Canada, at the end of his three-day tour with the Duchess of Cornwall. He told a Holocaust survivor who he met on the official visit that Vladimir Putin's actions in the Ukraine bore comparison to Hitler's



Russian President Vladimir Putin boarding a helicopter during a one-day visit to his country's Amur region today. His foreign ministry spokesman said Prince Charles' remarks were 'outrageous'

In London, the Russian embassy added to the attack.

'The minister-counsellor of the embassy, Mr Alexander Kramarenko, will meet this afternoon the representatives of the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office] to discuss a range of bilateral issues,' it said in a statement.

'The outrageous remarks made by Prince Charles in Canada will be among the questions raised. The embassy asked the FCO for official clarifications on that yesterday.'
However, at today's meeting, British diplomats refused to discuss the issue.

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Foreign Office official Sian MacLeod told Russian deputy ambassador Alexander Kramarenko she 'could not be expected to comment upon reports of private conversations' and instead discussed the volatile situation in Ukraine.

A Foreign Office statement on the meeting between Ms MacLeod and Mr Kramarenko this afternoon made no further reference to the Prince's comments.

A spokesman's comments instead focused on the situation in Ukraine, calling on Russia to 'restrain those responsible for violence and disorder' and condemning Moscow's actions ahead of this weekend's presidential elections.

The spokesman said: 'This weekend, the Ukrainian people will vote in one of the most important elections in their history.



Prince Charles is presented with a Stetson as worn by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police by RCMP Deputy Commissioner Janice Armstrong during an award presentation ceremony in Winnipeg on the last day of his tour of Canada today

'As the Foreign Secretary has repeatedly made clear, they have the right to choose their own government in a free and fair election and Russia must exercise its influence to restrain those responsible for violence and disorder.

'People and governments across the world strongly condemn Russia's actions in Ukraine including the illegal annexation of Crimea, and the provoking of instability on the territory of a sovereign neighbour.

'The UK urges Russia to step back from actions that cause instability and conflict, and lead to international condemnation: continued instability in Ukraine is in no-one's long term interests.'



Meanwhile today, Charles jetted out of Winnipeg, the capital of the prairie province Manitoba, at the end of his three-day tour. He will return to the UK later today.

Britain’s three main party leaders have defended Charles’s right to speak out following the Mail’s revelation that he had compared the Russian president’s actions in Ukraine to Hitler’s seizure of territory in Eastern Europe in the 1930s.
But the remark has caused outrage across Russia. A Kremlin source said it was ‘deeply insulting to the leader of a country that lost almost 30million lives defeating the Nazis’.
And Denis Pushilin, a Russian separatist leader in eastern Ukraine, said it was just as offensive ‘to ordinary Russians – after all, Mr Putin represents the country which defeated fascism’.



Prince Charles inspects an honour guard during his farewell ceremony in Winnipeg, Manitoba, today, before flying home to Britain



Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, share a smile at the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the final engagement of their trip to Canada. He will become its king as well as the United Kingdom's when he accedes to the throne



Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, leave the Manitoba Legislature building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for a final chance to meet Canadians on a walkabout. He was returning to Britain today

Prince Charles compares President Putin to Adolf Hitler



On a dramatic day of reaction:

• There were fears of a possible showdown after officials said Charles and Mr Putin are both due at D-Day anniversary ceremonies in northern France next month;
• A former UK ambassador to Moscow also said the Hitler comparison ‘could hardly be more insulting’ for a Russian;
• Moscow’s pro-Putin media dredged up the Royal Family’s links to the Nazis;
• Senior Labour MPs suggested Charles should ‘abdicate’ and stand for election if he wanted to express political views;
• But their leader Ed Miliband insisted Charles ‘had a point’ about Mr Putin.

Charles’s remark was made to a volunteer during a tour of the Museum of Immigration in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Marianne Ferguson, 87, told him she had fled to Canada shortly before the Nazis annexed her home city of Danzig – now Gdansk in Poland.
She said the prince replied: ‘And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler.’



As the Kremlin blasts Charles's words, aides say the pair may meet at a war memorial in Colville next month

The comment comes just over a fortnight before a possible encounter between Charles and Mr Putin at the 70th anniversary commemorations of the liberation of France.
Charles and Camilla are due at Colville in Normandy on June 6 and royal sources say Mr Putin may be there too.
‘The only event where they might be both be present is the ceremony of remembrance, at Colleville-Montgomery-Plage – Sword Beach – to commemorate the Allied Normandy landing,’ a royal source said.
‘It is an outdoor event and the format is such that guests will be seated for the entire ceremony. The prince will leave immediately afterwards as he has another event to attend.
‘There have never been plans for the Prince of Wales to meet President Putin in Normandy next month.’

'He is entitled to his views'
- Nick Clegg

Royal aides refused to be drawn on whether Charles would be willing to shake the hand of the Russian leader. One senior royal source said the Prince did not deny making the remark about Mr Putin, but was frustrated the row had overshadowed his tour.
‘It was an off-the-cuff comment made out of empathy and not a political statement,’ the source said.
Asked three times on the BBC about the comments, David Cameron said: ‘I’m not going to comment on the private conversations of anyone, least of all Prince Charles.’
But he insisted: ‘Of course, everyone’s entitled to their private opinions.’
Mr Miliband went further, insisting: ‘He has got a point about President Putin’s actions and he is absolutely entitled to say that there are real concerns about that.
‘Lots of people across the country will share Prince Charles’s concern about President Putin and his actions in the Ukraine.’
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who chairs the Privy Council, the ancient body which advises the Queen, insisted Charles was ‘free to express himself’.
‘I have never been of this view that if you are a member of the Royal Family, somehow you have to enter into some Trappist vow of silence,’ he said. ‘He is entitled to his views.
‘The behaviour of Putin is not only menacing to Ukraine but it is very destabilising for Europe more generally.’
Former Conservative defence minister Sir Gerald Howarth said he had ‘great sympathy’ for Charles’s comparison of Mr Putin to Hitler.
But Sir Tony Brenton, the former British ambassador to Moscow, told the BBC: ‘You can’t be much more insulting about a Russian than to compare them to Hitler, who killed 26 million Russians. I suspect he [Mr Putin] will be rather angered.’
But Ukip leader Nigel Farage, who has said he admires Mr Putin more than any other world leader, insisted Charles was wrong to compare the Russian leader to Hitler. He blamed the EU and Nato for pursuing an expansionist foreign policy in eastern Europe.
Labour MP Mike Gapes said of Charles: ‘If he wishes to be in public life speaking out, saying what he thinks on every issue then unfortunately he should abdicate and stand for election.’



Poking the bear: Prince Charles, pictured at Assiniboine Zoo in Canada, has enraged the Kremlin
Prince Charles feeds polar bear at Canada zoo



Russia’s minister counsellor in London, Alexander Kramarenko, will insist on answers from senior Foreign Office officials today.
The Whitehall source said: ‘We will follow the guidance of Clarence House which is that we are not getting into private conversations.
‘We will press the Russians on their policy and their actions in the east of Ukraine.’
Moskovsky Komsomolets, a pro-Putin newspaper, warned of a threat to ‘already far from cloudless relations’ between the two countries. Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin’s spokesman, said the Russian leader was ‘not commenting right now’.
Sources said he wanted to focus on his trip to China and not detract from its strategic importance.
Mr Pushilin, who is the self-styled leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic, said: ‘The comparison with Hitler is totally absurd, groundless and unfair.’
Some news outlets were personally abusive in their coverage of the heir to the throne’s ‘moronic’ words. An online business magazine, business-ru.com, lambasted the ‘geriatric Prince of Wales, the oldest heir in the history of Great Britain, who failed to control himself and follow etiquette’.
It said the remarks were especially unfortunate given ‘his uncle Edward VIII clearly sympathised with the Nazis’.

Heart-rending tale of woman who confided in the prince



She fled to Canada: Marianne Ferguson with her late husband Lawrence

Prince Charles was prompted to compare Putin with Hitler after hearing the heartbreaking life story of a Jewish survivor of the Second World War.

Marianne Ferguson was forced to flee to Canada with her family when she was just 13 to escape the advancing Nazis.

The 87-year-old is now a museum volunteer and told her incredible story to Charles as she showed him the exhibits.

Mrs Ferguson was born in Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, which was a key flashpoint in the war.

As a free city under terms agreed after the Great War, it had attracted a large number of Jewish residents and so was an obvious target for the Nazi party, which took it over in 1933 and began to intimidate the 11,000 Jews.

Yesterday, Mrs Ferguson said that sometimes the Nazis would take away the head of the household.

The following day, his family would ‘get a little gift… a dainty little parcel, mostly a box, wrapped in tissue paper and tied with a brightly-coloured ribbon’, she said.

‘When it was opened, one found in the box the remains or ashes of the person who had disappeared the night before. Also a little card was enclosed, a card of sympathy.’

The girl, known then as Marianne Echt, was shocked when the priest at their local church found a mutilated cat, cut in half and hanging from a miniature gallows, on his door step. An accompanying note read: ‘Today the cat, tomorrow you.’

Many Danzig Jews tried to escape but nearly 2,000 were sent to concentration camps.

They included some of her own family. The Echts were lucky. As a pharmacist and farmer, Mr Echt was the sort of immigrant Canada was seeking to attract.



Ordeal: Marianne, pictured in 1936, left her home town of Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk

Only 5,000 were allowed into the country during the Hitler years. The family sailed to Halifax in Nova Scotia in 1939 and disembarked at Pier 21, site of the immigration museum where she met Charles at the reception on Monday.

In 1946, she married a local Jewish man, Lawrence Ferguson, who died in 2012. They have three children and four grandchildren.

Ever grateful to the ‘free’ country which welcomed her so warmly, Mrs Ferguson continues to do voluntary work at the immigration museum.

Yesterday she said she agreed with the prince’s remark and never meant to make any trouble. ‘I didn’t think it was going to make such a big uproar.’

CHARLES, RUSSIA AND 100 YEARS OF SHARED HISTORY



Princess Alix of Hesse, who married Tsar Nichoas II in 1894, was one of two of Queen Victoria's granddaughters who married into the Russian imperial family

Prince Charles's comments on one level are a simple commentary on contemporary politics from a man who is regularly briefed on foreign affairs by ministers.
But his family also have a deep-rooted connection to Russia, and in particular to the royal family overthrown by the Soviets.
The House of Romanov - which had reigned over Russia since 1613 - met its end in the early hours of July 17, 1918, during the Russian Revolution, when Tsar Nicholas II was marched into a cellar of a house and mown down by a Bolshevik firing squad.

Among the others executed that day were his son, Alexei Nikolaevich, his four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia - and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.

The Romanovs, who are buried in the former royal capital of St Petersburg, still have living relations - among them Charles's father, Prince Phillip, whose maternal grandmother was Princess Victoria of Hesse, the older sister of the doomed Tsarina.

Alexandra, who married the tsar in 1894, was one of two of Queen Victoria's granddaughters who married into the Russian imperial family.

In her early years, Princess Alix of Hesse, as she was then known, had spent much of her life with Victoria at Balmoral and Clarence House - the latter being the official residence today of Prince Charles.

Her elder sister, Elizabeth, married the tsar's brother the Grand Duke Sergei, in 1884 - but as with her sister, it would end in tragedy.

In 1905, her husband was assassinated by a socialist revolutionary.

The Bolsheviks established the Communist Party in 1912 - and after they swept to power, they founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union in 1922.
And while Vladimir Putin does not consider himself a communist, he has said that he regrets the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, the eldest child of Victoria and Albert, Crown Princess Vicky, married German emperor Frederick III in 1858.

Among their sons was Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose militarist policies contributed to the outbreak of World War I.



The Romanov dynasty ended in 1918 when the tsar and his family were executed by Bolsheviks

'The war has started': Pro-Russian militants storm checkpoint and kill 14 Ukrainian soldiers in deadliest clash yet

• More than 30 Ukrainian soldiers also wounded, some gravely, witnesses said
• Separatist militant group in Horlivka claim responsibility for the attack
• Comes as Ukrainian army shelling destroys more homes near Slavyansk
• Kremlin announces that troop withdrawal from border regions underway
• British RT journalist is freed after days held captive by pro-Kiev forces
  

By James Chapman and Rebecca English and Daniel Martin and Leon Watson

At least 14 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and dozens more were wounded when rebels stormed their checkpoint in east Ukraine today.

It is the deadliest clash yet in the conflict in Ukraine and saw three armoured vehicles destroyed and a series of other lorries and vans burned out.
A group of rebels in the town of Horlivka claimed responsibility for the attack near the village of Blahodatne, near the town of Volnovakha, Donetsk.
They produced an array of weapons they said they had seized from the soldiers, in what is the deadliest raid in weeks of fighting in the region.

But a Ukrainian commander said shortly after the attack: 'The war has started.'

The destruction of armoured vehicles shows that the rebels have access to heavy weaponry and are not lightly-armed freelance operators. It is likely to raise fears that they have been armed by Moscow.

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Two destroyed Ukrainian armoured personnel carriers and an army lorry show the aftermath of the bloodiest attack yet in the Ukrainian conflict. Fourteen soldiers died and dozens more were wounded in the ambush by pro-Kremlin forces who attacked a Ukrainian mobile military checkpoint today



A Ukrainian soldier stands near destroyed truck at the site of an attack by pro-Russian insurgents near the village of Blahodatne today. At least 11 Ukrainian troops were killed and about 30 others were wounded in the deadliest clash yet in the country. Three Ukrainian armored infantry vehicles were destroyed and several other vehicles were burned out in the gun battle which followed an ambush by pro-Russian insurgents



Two of the casualties of the bloodiest attack yet in Ukraine. Fourteen soldiers were killed and many more wounded in the attack on a military checkpoint by pro-Russian forces



Armed: A separatist shows off the array of weapons his group it seized



The weapons haul included automatic and sniper rifles, rocket grenade launchers and bulletproof vest

Pro-Russian militants storm checkpoint and kill at least 11



'We destroyed a checkpoint of the fascist Ukrainian army deployed on the land of the Donetsk Republic,' said the commander, who wore a balaclava and identified himself by his nom de guerre, 'Bes' - Russian for 'demon.'
'The weapons you see here have been taken from the dead, they are trophies,' he said.

He showed several dozen items, including automatic and sniper rifles, rocket grenade launchers and bulletproof vests. The booty was carefully laid out in the courtyard of the Horlivka city police headquarters which is occupied by the rebels.

'People living in western Ukraine: Think about where you are sending your brothers, fathers and sons, and why you need any of this,' the commander said.

The claims could not be independently verified.
Associated Press reporters who arrived after the attack saw 11 bodies scattered around the checkpoint near the village of Blahodatne, near the town of Volnovakha, Donetsk.
More than 30 soldiers loyal to Kiev were wounded, some gravely, when the insurgents stormed the checkpoint, witnesses said.
Officials in Ukraine later raised the death toll to 14.

Three charred Ukrainian armoured infantry vehicles, their turrets blown away by powerful explosions, and several burned trucks stood at the scene of the battle.
Officials arrived at the battlefield in a military helicopter and inspected the area. Ukraine's defence ministry confirmed the attack but would not comment on casualties.
Scores have been killed since the Kiev government launched an 'anti-terrorist operation' against insurgents, who have seized government buildings and declared their regions independent.



Pro-Russian militants guard a checkpoint in Semyonovka village, outside Slavyansk, Ukraine



Militants stand near houses in Semyonovka which have been damaged by Ukrainian army shelling



Zinaida Patskan, 80, stands in her house after shelling from Ukrainian government forces in Semyonovka



The roof of her home was torn and an exterior wall demolished by the shells from troops loyal to Kiev



Mrs Patskan his under a table with her pet cat Timofey, pictured, as the shells rained down on her home



'Why they are hitting us?' she said to an AP reporter while bursting into tears. 'We are peaceful people!'



The people of Semyonovka gather together to protest against the shelling from Ukrainian soldiers

Today's battle will cast a shadow over Ukraine's presidential vote this Sunday, which insurgents have vowed to derail.
The authorities in Kiev see the vote as a chance to defuse tensions and stabilise the country. But they admitted that it will be impossible to stage the vote in some areas in the east. They say election officials and voters have faced intimidation and threats from the rebels.
Many in the Russian-speaking east resent the government in Kiev, which seized power in February after mass protests toppled Ukraine's pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych.
Eastern Ukrainians see the new regime as 'fascists' bent on oppressing Russian speakers and targeting ethnic Russians. But they are also said to be growing increasingly exasperated with the rebels after finding themselves in the crossfire of battles with the Ukrainian army.



Pro-Russian fighters pose for a photo in front of a burning cafe after impact of a mortar bomb, during fighting between Ukrainian government troops and militants in Slavyansk



A pro-Russian fighter takes a photo of the burning cafe on his mobile phone

In the village of Semenovka, on the outskirts of Slavyansk, artillery shelling that appeared to come from government positions badly damaged several houses today.
Zinaida Patskan, 80, had the roof of her house torn by an explosion, which also shattered one of the walls. 'Why they are hitting us?' she said, bursting into tears. 'We are peaceful people!'
Mrs Patskan, who wasn't hurt, said she was hiding under a kitchen table with her cat, Timofey, when the shelling came.
About a hundred Semenovka residents later vented their anger against the central government, demanding that the Ukrainian forces cease their offensive and withdraw from the region.
Speakers at the rally also called for boycotting the presidential vote.



President Vladimir Putin's order to withdraw Russian forces massed along the border with Ukraine was today being carried out, according to the Russian defence ministry. Nato said it had seen no signs of movement

As fighting raged in Ukraine, Russia's Defence Ministry said today that its forces were leaving border regions as part of a military pullout ordered by President Vladimir Putin.

It said that four trainloads of weapons and 15 Il-76 heavy-lift transport planes left the Belgorod, Bryansk and Rostov regions on Wednesday. The troops are to reach their permanent bases before June 1, the ministry added.
RUSSIA ANNOUNCES SWITCH FROM DOLLAR PAYMENTS FOR ITS OIL

Many clients of Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian state gas company Gazprom, are ready to switch their payments from U.S. dollars to euros and yuan, CEO Alexander Dyukov said today.

Any switch away from the use of U.S. dollars as a global reserve currency could lead to massive shockwaves in the American economy.

Mr Dyukov added there could be problems borrowing abroad because of western sanctions imposed on Russia after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March but said that Gazprom Neft had fulfilled its borrowing plan for 2014.

The announcment came as a businessman facing EU and U.S. sanctions was appointed Russia's business envoy to China. Gennady Timchenko said he expects a flurry of deals in a shift away from the West.

He said: 'You know what Putin said? He introduced me (to Chinese businessmen) by saying now Mr Timchenko is the head of our business council.

'In other words - it is my words here - he is our main man for China. From the point of view of business relations. That was yesterday.'

Nato has estimated that Russia has 40,000 troops along the border with Ukraine. The U.S.-led alliance insisted earlier this week that it had not yet seen any signs of a Russian withdrawal.
Putin scoffed at Nato's scepticism, saying yesterday that the pullout involving such large numbers of troops would take time. 'Those who aren't seeing it should look better,' he said.
He said the pullout will be clearly visible in satellite images.
The announcement went further than an earlier step by the Russian leader two weeks ago, when he said the troops retreated from the border to shooting ranges.
Putin's pullout order and his remarks welcoming Ukraine's presidential election this Sunday seemed to reflect an attempt to ease tensions with the West over Ukraine and avoid a new round of Western sanctions.
He has ignored the plea of some of the rebels in eastern Ukraine to join Russia after independence referendums dismissed as a sham by Kiev and the West.
The U.S. and the European Union imposed travel bans and asset freezes on members of Putin's entourage after Russia annexed Crimea in March.
Western politicians have warned that more crippling sanctions against entire sectors of the Russian economy would follow if Russia tries to grab more land or attempts to derail Ukraine's election.
Moscow has supported a peace plan brokered by Switzerland and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. It proposes a broad amnesty and the launch of a national dialogue that focuses on the decentralisation of government and upholding the status of the Russian language.
Russia also has pushed for guarantees that Ukraine will not join Nato and has advocated constitutional reforms that would give broader powers to the regions. Some say this would maintain Moscow's clout in the Russian-speaking eastern regions that form the nation's industrial heartland.



Journalists picket the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow to demand the release of journalists working for RT and Moscow-based Life News who have been detained by forces loyal to the government in Kiev

As clashes continued in the east, the Kremlin angrily protested the detention of journalists working for Russian media outlets in Ukraine.
Graham Phillips, a British national working for state-controlled English language television station RT, was detained earlier this week by Ukrainian forces.
Two correspondents with Moscow-based Life News television are still in Ukrainian custody and facing accusations of aiding armed insurgents - a claim that Putin has dismissed as 'rubbish and nonsense.'

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